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solde twenty quarters of barley to a Yorke-maltster, which was 

 delivered, att Cout" landinge, att a day appointed. 



See more of this subject in the second booke before the di- 

 rections for makinge and steaming of netts. 



For sendinge of Corne to the Mill for the Howse-use. 



Wee have allwayes of a stricken bushell of corne, an up- 

 heaped bushell of meale, i. e. ; sixe peckes, or very neare ; 

 whearefore, when wee sende a bushell of corne to the mill, wee 

 putte it in a mette-poake ; when wee sende a mette to the 

 mill, wee putte it into a three bushell secke ; when wee sende 

 three bushells to the mill, wee sende it in an halfe quarter-secke ; 

 and then doe wee measure the meale when it commeth hoame, 

 and have for every bushell of corne very neare sixe peckes of 

 meale, if the corne bee dry ; or else the fault is in the miller 

 that taketh more mowter than is his due ; whearefore, if wee 

 take him tardy, v/ee chainge our miller, and sende our corne to 

 another mill. The cadgers call (for the most part) every day ; 

 they caU in the morninge, and if wee have anythinge for them, 

 they goe on to Garton, and call for it againe as they come 

 backe ; they bringe it hoame the next daye aboute nine or 

 tenne of the clocke ; for they keepe theire mills goinge all 

 night if they have but whearewithall to keepe her doinge. 

 When wee goe to take up come for the mill, the fii-st things 

 we doe is to looke out poakes, then the bushell and strickle, 

 after that a sieve to rye the corne with ; we make the miller 

 sitte on his knees and rye it, that the dirte and dust may goe 

 through, and the chaffe, capes, and heads gather togeather on 

 the toppe, and are taken of The millers give usually to them 

 that carry for them 2s. 6d. a weeke, i. e. od. a day : they will 

 cany (constantly) a quarter and tenne busheUs on an horse. 

 The couree which wee take, to try the millers usuage, is to take 

 the same bushell or scopp that wee measured the corne in, and 

 to measure the meale therein, after it is brought hoame, just as 

 it commeth fi'om the miUne-eye, and afore it be temsed ; and 

 first we poore in the meale, and upheap the bushell ; then doe 

 wee lay our hands crosse one above another, and thrust it 

 downe ; and then, if it will not holde out to upheape the bush- 

 ell againe, then the miller hath not grounde us well. New- 

 threshed come is aUwayes the sweetest, for it will foyst with 



* King's Staith and St. Ann's Staith still exist ; where this landing was I do not 

 know, unless we should read " Court" for Cout, and then it may be another name 

 for the Manor Shore," so recently transformed into the esplanade. The proximity 

 of the Manor Shore to the old Horse fair renders this conjecture probable. Or is 

 the word " cout" the word " ghaut," a narrow lane or alley running from a street to 

 a riyer ? 



